Socioeconomic Factors: Rarely is childhood obesity caused by a medical condition. A child’s environment is very complex and includes family‚ peers‚ school‚ community/neighborhoods‚ and society at large‚ as filtered through media‚ advertising‚ and prevailing social norms. Socioeconomic status is an important determinant of standard of living and health status‚ as it influences the incidence and prevalence of various health conditions such as childhood obesity. Several ways of measuring socioeconomic
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Obesity comes with it a wide array of unintended consequences that potentially affects everyone‚ rather than just those that are afflicted with it. By definition obesity is merely the accumulation of excess body fat to the extent where it may have an adverse affect on one’s health. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ as many as 33% of adults‚ and 17% of children are facing such a struggle. In the face of such stagaring statistics‚ there are few solutions to the problem
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These past few decades have shown drastic changes in how health is perceived. With childhood obesity raising every year this is something that needs to be recognized with a change following it. The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2012. Similarly‚ the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5% to nearly 21% over the same period of time (Center for Disease Control and Prevention).
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and exercise only to get rid of fat accumulation C. Fad diets IV. Overconsumption A. Over spending on food B. Over eating C. Food everywhere V. Huge portions A. Americans like "big" B. Names for our food C. Why huge portions lead to obesity 1. Large portion foods tend to be high calorie 2. Higher calorie foods taste better 3. Better tasting foods eaten in larger amounts D. U.S. portions compared to French VI. What foods America eats A. Nutrition Replacement B. Why Americans
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of the problems that they are causing. My purpose is to basically keep you aware of the actions and methods that they are using to keep you in arm’s length away. There is something that many fast food companies are doing to each of one of us‚ it’s a serious matter that effects our health. In 2014‚ these companies have spent more than $4.6 billion in total of advertisements to influence
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Cited: Dewey‚ William. "Addiction Research: A National Imperative." Friends of the National Institute on Drug Abuse‚ November 2008. Web. 9 May 2014. "Treatment." Current Issues: Macmillan Social Science Library. Detroit: Gale‚ 2010. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 2 May 2014. "Treatment
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face-to-face interactions because of technological advances. Technology has impacted toddlers in several ways: such as an increase in childhood obesity‚ less reading‚ and a decrease in social interaction with other kids. Childhood obesity is on the rise in the United States‚ and technology has played an important part in the increasing trend. Children are advised to get one hour of active play a day; instead they play on their tablets and video games consuls‚ causing them to stay stationary for long periods
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Article 1: Biology‚ childhood‚ trauma‚ and murder: Rethinking justice National Center for Biotechnology Information. U.S. National Library of Medicine‚ n.d. Web. This article focuses on several different types of children who has been subject to psychological trauma. Their studies use the nervous and endocrine system to understand the long effects of each system. By using‚ a child who has had severe abuse and neglect in their lives. The study can observe the change in the nervous and endocrine
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Abstract Schools may have an ethical obligation to help in the prevention of the increasing propensity toward childhood obesity. School programs can be implemented to improve the nutritional quality of students’ diets. Students spend approximately one third of their day in school and consume one to two meals there per day‚ therefore justifying the importance of the responsibility to advise dietary behaviors and influence healthy decisions. In consideration of these logical methods‚ the ethical
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Title: How Junk Food Can Cause Obesity Complication in Young Children Attention Getter: How many of you know that when young children get addicted to junk food that they can get obesity from eating a lot of junk food. Childhood obesity is rising throughout the world. Credibility: The History of Junk Food www.thehistoryofjunkfood.com What are junk foods and what are healthy foods www.whatarejunkfoodsandhealthyfoods.com The affect among junk food www.theaffectsamongjunkfood.com
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